About his Artwork

Although often specializing in semi abstract cityscapes and artistic nude canvas paintings, his work has encompassed a wide variety of subjects. His original paintings are sold excussively from arts-fine.co.uk

The art work is a balance between abstraction and realism. Pulling both together and bringing both disciplines to form a self contradictory abstract realism. This allows interaction between the art and the viewer. What the artist brings to the piece is only part of the art, what you see and how you feel about it is what completes the work. When you own the original, it is you who finished the piece. Where you choose to hang it and what you feel about it are the final strokes that complete the work.

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About the Artist

Samuel Durkin was born in 1972 in Portsmouth England. he grew up in Wallingford, a small town in Oxfordshire, England. His Mother a local artist ran an art shop and gallery in the town, he was always surrounded by art and artists and it seems that art was not only in his blood but in every aspect of his life.

So Art became his passion, and while personal, physical and mental misfortunes have sometimes stood in his way, he has always challenged, learnt and risen above them. Taking a path through life that is entirely his own, and helping as many other people as he can along the way. When you know hardship, you gain empathy for others.

He studied at Bournemouth and Poole art collage. He passed the course, but only just. As he fell into a period of mental and physical illness. But as ever his art was always his main passion, painting each day, often going without food or heating to pay for canvas and paint. reusing canvases over and over again. Painting his way out of his breakdown. He comes to see this time as far more important than the preceding years at art collage where marks, grades and essays were all anyone seemed interested in. Understanding that you cannot measure art, it will not be contained, and it is larger than any box you care to put it in.

Today

Now many years later, he is stronger and more centered. Having mastered meditation and self awareness ,he now runs this website and the community site arts-fine-gallery.co.uk.

In 2008 he had a heart failure, yet he continued to work hard, and recovered entirely in 2010 and is now fitter and more active than many people half his age. His goals in life are to maintaining high standards, to sell art people want, to treat customers, artists and employees in a fair and ethical way. Spurred on by the many people who have brought and love his art, he believes anything is possible, and knows the future is bright.

His work is abstract and impressionist, trying to keep a balance between identifiable images and a painterly abstraction. He has become best know for his nude and cityscape painting. The focus is on the painting technique and the beauty of form. His work expresses his feelings thought the paint and is designed to enlighten your life.

The Watcher

This piece is was created during the time he had his first mental breakdown at about the age of 20. He has never put it up for sale, and says it never will be. This image haunted him day and night. He saw it in the patterns in tarmac and drew it directly onto his trousers. Then in a 5 week long session painting everyday, this was the final result. This piece marked a distict turn in his artist style, but feeling he had created his best work almost crippled his ability to continue. After finishing it he stopped painting and didn't pick up a brush again for 5 years. He has come to realize this was a self portrait. The style now influences all his others work and some have said that it resembles some of Francis Bacons paintings. Although this style was developed in a dark mental state, he has applied it to much more aesthetic images. To understand this painting to understand everything he creates

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